Walking to Martha's Vineyard Quotes

“I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“EPITAPH

Now I'm not the brightest
knife in the drawer, but
I know a couple things
about this life: poverty
silence, impermanence
discipline and mystery

The world is not illusory, we are

From crimson thread to toe tag

If you are not disturbed
there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry

And I know who I am
I'll be a voice
coming from nowhere,

inside--

be glad for me.
”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“P.S."

I close my eyes and see
a seagull in the desert,
high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I’m writing to you
all the time, I am writing

with both hands,
day and night.”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“The Poem"

It was like getting a love letter from a tree

Eyes closed forever to find you–

There is a life which
if I could have it
I would have chosen for myself from the beginning”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“Proof
of Your existence? There is nothing
but.”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“Your words are spirit
and life.
Only say one
and he will be healed.”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“That insane asshole is dead
I drowned him
and he’s not coming back. Look
he has a new life
a new name
now
which no one knows except
the one who gave it.”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“You gave me

in secret one thing

to perceive, the

tall blue starry


strangeness of being

here at all.”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems